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VOL. I. NO. 88.
Morning Edition.
ATLANTA, GAI, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1906.
Morning Edition.
pPTpl?. !n Atlanta TWO CENTS,
riUGL<. on Train* FIVE CENTS.
40 V. S. ARMY OFFICERS
MIXED UP IN SCANDAL
Major General Corbin
. Included in the
List.
GOVERNMENT PAYS
' FOR HOME REPAIRS
Many Thousands of Dollars
Due Uncle Sam Buried
Under Red Tape.
Special Cable—Copyright.
Manila, Aug. 7.—Aa a result of the
Investigation of the army constructions
shops being conducted by Colonel
Wood, inspector general of the division.
Major General Wood Is rendering bills
for government articles to forty officers
of the army and civil government In
cluding Major General Henry C. Cor
bin. General Wood's predecessor as
commander-ln-chlef.
Tens of thousands of dollars due the
government have been burled beneath
a mass of official red tape for more
than two years. Officials who are
concerned will be compelled to pay a
monthly sum from their wages which
will be held put by the auditor In the
case of civil employees and by the
paymasters of the army In case of
army officers.
It is said that the Indebtedness of
General Corbin exceeds $5,000. The
money la due for repairs to his resi
dence while he lived In Manila, and
the house Is not government property.
The house had extensive repairs by
carpenters and other artisans em
ployed by the government. These of
ficers owe sums running Into the
thousands.
It is said that after the government
has been reimbursed by the indebted
officers there will be court-martials In
the army and suspensions In the civil
circles. The discoveries being made
by Colonel Wood have cheated a furor
in local society and every day the
number of persons Involved In the
scandal grows. It Is reported here
that the most sensational discoveries
are being suppressed.
JULIAN THOMAS, ATLANTAN,
BREAKS SKY TRIP RECORD
AND NEARLY MEETS DEATH
Here Is a picture of Dr. Julian P. Thomns, the former Atlanta man.
who on Monday made a successful trip of 240 miles In tils largo balloon,
the Nirvana.
INVITED 10 CAMP OF
THE GEORGIA MILITIA
Soldier Bovs Give Big Drill
Near Historic Snod
grass Hill.
Rpeelsl to The Ocorginn.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 7.—The
Georgia officers have sent an Invlta
tlon to Governor .Terrell, of Georgia,
to be present at Chlckamauga Thurs
day when Governor Heyward, o
South Carolina, will visit the South
Carolina troops at the park. Reviews
will be held and salutes will be tired
In honor of tho governors of the two
states. Full details will be arranged
as soon as Governor Terrell accepts
the Invitation.
Notwithstanding the rain, rain, rain
and the hot weather, the Georgia sob
dlers are quenching their thirst with
soda pop and today they dispensed
with 4.800 bottles.
The health and sanitation of the
camp Is excellent.
The Seventy-flrst Virginia gives a S
o'clock concert at their camp every
afternoon.
Today the Georgia regiments gave a
big drill near Snodgrass Hill.
Paid Own Expenses.
This Is known as "Cracker week'
at Chtckhmauga, for the Georgia troops
have taken possession of the arm?
maneuvers, when It Is not raining. Ths
Fifth Georgia regiment would not be
outdone and so It paid Its own ex*
penses In coming to Chlckamauga.
It la In charge of the following of
ficers:
Major Walter K. Coney, Savannah.
Major M. J. O’Leary. Savannah.
Major W. M. Wilder, Albany.
Major John K. Train, surgeon. Sa
vannah.
First Lieutenant and Acting Adju
tant Victor D. Darbot, Augusta, from
the Third regiment.
Captain and Quartermaster J. J.
Gaudry, Savannah.
Captain and Acting Commissary
Thomas J. Hunter, Savannah.
Captain and Surgeon Martin J. Coo
ley. Savannah.
Companies from the First regiment:
Company’ D, Emmett Rides, Savan
nah. Captain E. A. Leonard.
Company’ I, Oglethorpe Light Infan
try, Savannah, Captain C. W. Saussy.
Company H, German Volunteer*, Sa
vannah, Captain J. D. Helmkin.
Company F, a composite company
from Waycross and neighbors. Captain
C. Mcllreath.
“IT’S WORTH $10
TO HIT UMPIRE.”
By Private Learned Wire.
New York, Aug. 7.—"It's worth $10
any day to hit an umpire who made a
decision like his.”
So spoke William Krauss when ar
raigned before Magistrate Whitman In
the Harlem police court today oii a
charge of assaulting Umpire Johnstone,
at the polo grounds yesterday.
Physician and Toledo Aeronaut Fly in Air
From New York City to Plymouth,
Mass., in Quick Time.
By Prirate Leased Wire.
New York, Aug. 7.—Dr. Julian P.
Thomas, formerly a physician of At
lanta, who, with Roy Knabenshue, as
cended in his balloon, Nirvana, from
the foot of East One Hundred and
Thirty-eighth street, and after spend
ing all night In the air, landed at
Brant Rock, near Boston, today relat
ed his experience:
"Ascending from the gas house, we
rose gradually Into a dense fog, and
within ten minutes o{ rising from the
ground had lost sight of land," he said.
"The night was intensely black: the
dark seemingly Impenetrable. There
was not even the glimmer of the world
ly lights beneath, nor the twinkle of
the stars above. We could not even
see the great gas bag over us, and I
had to grope from the string that led
to the exhaust valve to be sure that It
was still there."
In telling of the landing at Brant
Rock, Dr. Thomaa said:
"It w’as rather a tough one, the an
chor falling to catch properly and the
balloon In some Inexplicable way sud
denly turning over and over again.
Both of us were thrown out of the
basket, but we clung to the rigging
and there, wound up in the complex
network, we rolled over and over with
the bag. In the sorlmmnge I found the
emergency cord, I nulled it fiercely and
rent the balloon from top to bottom,
causing It to fall limply to the ground.
Knabenshue - in his wrist and was
slightly shaken up, but not seriously
hurt. I was uninjured."
The trip made was one of the long
est and most successful (n tho history
of ballooning In this country. The voj -
age covered 225 miles and was from
New York to Plymouth, Mass. Only
one stop was made during the voyage.
This was *at Noank, Conn., .where the
aeronauts breakfasted, after which
lli' • • -I and • "Tlf IU til** trip,
landing within 300 yards of the open
water* of Massachusetts bay. The
start was made at 8:40 o'clock Sunday
night by moonlight. Dr. Thomas modo
a test of a water anchor which he haa
Invented, and found it to work admir
ably.
THE ATLANTA NEWS
FOR ITHTTACKS
Declares Reflections on the
Members Totally Un
warranted.
3,000 ANGR Y CITIZENS
STORM COUNTY JAIL;
3 NE GR OES L YNCHED
VOTE OF CONFIDENCE
IN ITS M EMBERS
Resolutions Unanimously
Adopted Censuring Au
thor of Attacks.
ROOMFOR SUBTREASURY
IN NEW U. S. BUILDING
Provision Will Be Made
For Future Needs of
Government.
ARCHITECT FAVORS
GEORGIA MARBLE
Knox Taylor Talks Inter
estingly Concerning Plans
for Structure.
Supervising Architect James Knox
Taylor, of the treasury department, was
do*et*d with the various officials of
the government at the postoffice build
ing all of Tuesday morning, going over
with each the preliminary plans for
the new building which Uncle Sam ex
pects to erect In Atlanta In the near
future.
He was accompanied by Congress
man Legntyas F. Livingston, who
more than any t other man has been in
strumental ( in getting the appropria
tion of a million dollars for Atlanta's
building.
"The reason we got only $200,000 at
the last session of congress was be
cause we only wanted enough to carry
the work over until congress meets
again in the winter, when an appro
priation for another year's work will
be made.” said Colonel Livingston.
. "It will be several months probably
before the working plans are drawn,
and then It will be necessary to ask for
bids, which will take more time, and
then the contract will have to be let,
so that it will probably be December
or January before actual work Is com
menced,” was Mr. Knox’s response to
a query as to when ground would be
broken.
Room for Subtrestury.
"So far the only plans drawn are of
a tentative nature, and If Mr. Living
ston gets through his subtressury
measure, aa he confidently expects to
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do, we shall have no trouble In pro
viding quarters for that The fact Is
that, as the building Is now planned,
we shall have one entire floor for which
there will be no present use, but which
will be there' for growth of any de
partment which finds that it cannot-be
accommodated In the quarters allot
ted it,” said Mr. Taylor.
"The building will be of the classical
a pe, and will have a colonnade along
most the entire Forsyth street front
The lot on which the building Is to be
erected Is 200 feet square and the plans
drawn call for the building to be
190x190, so that you can see we are
wasting no space. The main entrance,
with *tej« leading Into the general de
livery lobby, will be on Forsyth street
with other entrances on Poplar and
Walton streets. Tho public lobby will
run clear around these three sides, and
back of them will be the great square
work room of the, postoffice. Here
there will be 20,000 square feet and
the room will be covered with a sky
light, thus giving ample accommoda
tion and light for the postoffice force.
"On the second floor will be located
all of the offices of the internal reve
nue department, and the court rooms
will be on the third. The upper sto
ries will have the shape of three sides
■■ rectangle, the space over the work
a of the postoffice being left as a
court. The fourth floor Is the one
which will be held for emergencies."
Mr. Taylor Is a graduate of the class
'79 of the Boston Tech and has been
connected with the treasury depart
ment for eleven years, nine of which
he has been In complete charge of all
public buildings constructed by the
government. He Is a plea«ant-faceJ,
Near the close of the session In the
senate Tuesday afternoon the privi
leged resolution printed below was In
troduced, and Senator IJennet said
amid profound silence:
*% for one, cannot sit calmly by and
see the honesty and Integrity of this
body Impugned In Intemperate lan
guage without protest. The editorial
comments of other Georgia papers
have been dignified in their utteranc*
The Atlanta News has charged this
body w 1th being i .till > id j* 111* s and
Ignorant of the people’s welfare,
want to condemn It with all the earn
estness possible.
The resolution Is as follow*, and was
adopted unanimously:
Whereas. The Atlanta News, on August
8. 1306, luul mi editorial under the follow
lug bending. **To Anns. Georgians! A
Foe Grapples nt lour Throat!” and In the
ipenrs:
lies In the
mouft vftfue of this property or their crim
inal disregard of the rights Slid welfare of
a sovereign state nnd Its people."
Whereas, The above charges the members
of the senate who voted for said lense ns
being allien of the railroads nnd being In
profound Ignorance of the measure for
wliirh they voted; therefore, 1n» It
Itegolved, Thnt from persons! contort sml
association with them, while many of us
differed with them nnd voted ngulnst the
dll, we are sure thnt the senators who
.oted for this bill were actuated by pnre
and patriotic motives, and were unin
llueneed except by their best Judgment
as to what would nt for the best Interest
f the people of this stnte. nnd thnt they
re able nud faithful public servants.
Signed: Seuntors Hen net. ltose. Slrmnns,
Flfggernld. Steed. Bond, Held. Alan brook,
A. C. IHnlnek. Candler. Miller, A. O. Ilia
lock, Wilcox.
HALtifl CANDLER
BILLS
KILLEDJN SENATE
Death of Hall Bill Came as
A Great Surprise
to Many.
After some two hours of debate the
senate Tuesday first killed ths Candler
substitute to the Hall tax assessor bill
by a vote of 25 to 18, and then killed
the Hall bill Itself by a vote of 22 to 19.
Fenatpr Candler's substitute provid
ed for county boards of assessor# In
addition to the state board of three
members. A flood of amendments were
sent up to the substitute and killed.
Then began a running debate In
which Senators, Held, Rennet, Steed,
Hogan, McHenry, King, Candler and
others took part. It was evident long
before n vote was reached on the sub
stitute that It would meet with defeat.
The slaying of the Hall bill, how
ever, came as a sort of surnrlse, as
the fight was apparently only on the
Candler measure. As the call proceed
ed, however, nnd the votee were re
corded against the Hall bill, surprise
was depicted on scores of fores.
In his speech Senator Reid took oc
casion to pay high tribute to the abil
ity and Integrity of Comptroller Gen
eral Wright. He said that he was a
man and an official above reproach.
The matter of assessing corporations
remains vested In the comptroller gen
eral, as has been the custom for years
past
Senate Bills Passed.
By Senator Bunn: To amend act
establishing the city court of Polk
county, so as to provide for a solicitor
of city court.
By Senator Adams: To amend the
charter of the city of Madison.
By Senator Adams: To amend act
authorzlng the mayor and council of
Madison lo maintain a system of
waterworks.
By Senator Carswell: To amend act
Incorporating Toombsboro, In the coun
ty of Wilkinson.
At 1:30 o'clock the senate adjourned
until 10 o’clock Wednesday.
Mob Wreaks Ven
geance on Alleged
Murderers.
INVESTIGATION IS
TO BE ORDERED
Court in Session to Try Al
leged Murderers of
Lyerly Family.
Special to The Georgian.
Salisbury, N. C., Aug. 7.—Taken
from Rowan county Jail by 3,000 de
termined citizens, shortly before 11
o'clock last night, three of the negroes
held on the charge of murdering the
Lyerly family at Barber Junction, July
13, were marched to Henderson’s ball
ground and after a fruitless endeavor
to get them to confess the crime, were
strung up to a limb on a tree and their
bodies riddled with bullets.
Three Are Not Molested.
Nease and John Gillespie and Jack
Dillingham, supposed to be the princi
pals to the crime, were the victims of
mob vengeance. The remaining ne
groes, Henry I,ee, George Ervin and
dells Dillingham, were not molested*
and later Tonight officers hurried them
off to Greensboro.
Saloons Ordered Closed.
The mob began gathering at sup. •
down, and Mayor Hoyden ordered the
saloons closed and, with other promi
nent citizens, United States Senator
Overman, Judge Long, who was holding
the special term of court to try the
Continued on Page Two.
LOOTERS
BEING SOUGHT
BY JETECTIVES
Chicago Depositors Lose
Hope of Recovering
$4,200,000.
FIGHTS COP,
Hr Print, L»m4 Win.
Chicago, Au*. 7.—President P»ul O.
Sten.lxnd, of the Milwaukee Avenue
State Dank, prntmbly will be arreited
a, ,oon „ he enter, Chicago or ran
be found. Bank Examiner C.
Jones, who rloied the bank yesterday,
•aid Mr. StenaUnd aurely bed guilty
knowledge of the looting of hie bank.
The 21,000 depositor. In tho brink
■re gradually loetng hope of recover
ing the J»,200.(>00 they Intruded t<
Stenrdnnd'e rare. Detective, are now
■reeking I'anhler Hhnery W. Bering, al
legeil embenler.
E. A. Potter, prealdent of the Amort
can Truat and Savings Bank, through
which Institution tho closed bank
cleared, la said today to have neeerted
the loss will be at least 11,000,000.
Aa early aa 1:10 o'clock this morning
200 men and' women, moat of them
Polee, gathere In front of the bonk.
Six [rollceman on duty triad to per
auade the vlaltnra that It was uaeteas
for them to stand around In the mud
dy atreet, ha they would not be per
inltted to enter tha hank during the
day.
This Information was not entlafac
tory and there was much bitter talk.
In which the name of Pity Attorney
John F. Smuleky was frequently men
tioned. lie formorlv wne Interested In
the Stenelanri Institution, but now
haa a bank of hta own.
CZAR CHANGES PLAN
FOR A NEW CABINET
Gives Up Scheme Re
garding Bureaucratic
Members.
STRIKE IN CAPITAL
NOW CALLED OFF
To Be Kept Alive in Prov
inces, However—Papers
Issued by Lot.
LEADER OF DOUMA
WHO WAS MURDERED
youngish looking man, with an ex
tremely cordial air to everyone.
"What will be done In reference to
constructing the building of Georgia
materialr Mr. Taylor was asked.
Prefers Georgia Marble.
•Well, that depends upon how much
{hey make It cost us. We always pre
fer to use local material wherever pos
sible, and I shall ask for bids In both’
marble and granite, and if the prices
of the Georgia manufacturers are low
enough shall certainly be very glad to
build It of stone: otherwise the build
ing will be of brick, but In any event
it will be absolutely fireproof.”
It Is a fact not generally known that
Uncle Sam does not Insure anything
that he owns, and the laws of the
United Staten say that every public
building shall be placed at least forty
feet from the nearest building line,
thus giving good fire protection.
By Private leased Wire.
London, Aug. 7.—A dispatch from
St. Petersburg says that the work
men's council has decided to call the
local strike off, but that the movement
will be continued In the provinces. The
order will be promulgated either to
night or tomorrow.
By Private Leaeed Wire.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 7.—According to
The Gazette, the emperor has decided
to form a reform ministry with Prince
Lvoff os premier. Count Heyden, min
Ister of the Interior, and M. Stokho
vltch was minister of finance.
Princ# Lvoff nnd Count Heyden are
Liberals >>f i’<iMH#Tvatl\« tendencies.
They were members of tho douum
hlch met at Vlborg after the disso
lution, but refused to sign the appeal
to the nation Issued by that body. If
this statement is true. It Indicates a
complete change of front by the czar.
RUSS PEASANTS FEEL
THE 8PIRIT OF UNREST.
By Private Leased Wire.
Ft. Petersburg, Aug. 7.—From gov
ernment sources the announcement Is
made today that the great general
strike has been broken. All working-
men who quit woik when the call was
Issued have Im-.'H u .n im •! to t • ruin t .
their places under penalty of arrest.
Strike leaders, or those supposed to
be leaders, are being put In Jail when
ever they can be located, and «w. gen
eral campaign of Intimidation has be
gun. The reports hardly bear out the
govemment'e statements that the
workingmen’s movement for a popular
assembly. land and liberty, have failed.
Prepare for Disorders.
Reports from all over the empire In
dicate a state of great unrest among
the peasant class who are preparing
for widespread disorders so soon as the
harvest snail have been gathered.
At Odessa the situation is critical.
The sailors of ths Baltic fleet are in
an ugly frame of mind, and the troop*
In the fortifications make open threats
of revolt.
Residents of the better class are flee
ing from Fevaetbpol by the thousands.
Already 20,000 persons hare left the
town and the exodus has not ceased.
Admiral Bkrydloff Is said to be on the
war from Sevastopol to Odessa by tor
pedo boat
Issued by Ballot.
The announcement made yesterday
from government source* that print
ers who had Joined the strike were
again at their work proves to be un
true.
The fact la, the printers' committee
offered the newspapers the opportunity
to avail themselves of the serrlcee of
enough printers to get out one publica
tion each day.
This offer was accepted and the
newspapers lire being Issued In rota
tion, the sequence of dally publication
having been decided by lot.
Photograph of If. Herzens tain, tho
leader of tho constitutional democrats
in tho douma, who was murdered by
assassin* hired by the Black Hundred
organization, near his country place,
at Terlokl, Finland.
JABBED IN THE NECK
IN DECATUR ST, BUR
J. D. Coulon and H. C. Dunran, white
man, engaged In a light Tuesday short
ly after noon In tha Star saloon In Da-
rntur atraat and Dunran waa Jabbed
In the n«ck with a kntfr.
Dunran waa taken to the Orady Ho»-
pltnl, whera tha wound waa draud,
after which ha waa locked In th« police
station.
Coulon ran from tha saloon, but waa
aprpahandad by Bailiff J. T. NVImbl.h,
of Justice of tha Peace Landrum's
court, ami turned over to Policeman
Green, who sent him to the police ela
tion. Both men are charged with dla-
orderly conduct and will be tried In po
lice court Wednesday morning.
FATHER TAKES CHARGE
OF KNIGHT8 REMAINS.
Rpeelsl to Th. tJrarglaa.
Gainesville. Oo_ Aug. 7.—Tho Nxly
of W. B. Knight, who ybsterdsy com
mitted suicide at New Holland by
hanging himself, was .hipped to Da-
cula for Interment. Knight's father
and father-in-law came to the city last
night and took charge of the body, ac
companying It to Dacula.
Big Crowd of Blacks
Gather, Muttering
Threats.
TAKES EIGHT 3IEN
TO HANDLE NEGRO
Men From Southern Depot
Help Officer to Subdue
Dallas.
After attacking Elijah Jones, a negro*
and beating him with a shovel Mon
day afternoon near the Peters atreet
valduct, Will Dallas, another negro,
desperately fought Policeman J. B.
Wilson and several citizens, the oora-
hlin'd effort of eight men being re
quired to handcuff him.
The negro resisted and fought the
officer nlong Peters street for a dis
tance of two blocks, the jiffalr ere
cting i* of intense excitement and
attracting a largo crowd of people.
Officer Wilson hnd to use his club vig
orously to protect himself and subdue
the unruly prisoner.
A big crowd of negroes quickly gath
ered on tho scene and It looked for A
time mm though there might |>e more
serious trouble. Home of the negroes
collected in groups and muttered
threats against the officer could be
plainly heard.
It seemed that these negroes were
bent on giving trouble, but the appear
ance of a number of armed white men
♦in the Hcemi probably prevented an up
rising.
Although DaIIab fought viciously nnd
did his best to free himself, Officer
Wilson bravely held onto him, and,
with the assistance of several citizens,
finally landed him In the patrol wagon
at Peters and Fair streets. The negro
resisted all the way from the point of
his arrest to the wagon.
ff per Ini Officer Dwyer, of the South
ern railway, was near by, and hurried
to the assistance of the policeman. A
number of other white men from the
Kouthern freight depot took part and
>n hnd the situation well In hand.
7 haven’t killed anybody yet. but I
will, all right.”
Dallas Is regarded ns a desperate
character. It has been reported to the
pcdlce that the negro some time ago
killed a deputy sheriff In Alabama anil
le hl« escape. He Is also said to
' served a term of five years In the
penitentiary. The police are Investi
gating the Alabama charge nnd If It
proves true the prisoner will be trans
ferred to thnt state to stand trial for
murder.
According to the evidence in j>oHce
court, he attacked Elijah Jones Mon
day afternoon without provocation, se
verely beating him.
IN THE HANDS
OFJJECEIVER
Warrants Are Issued For
President and
Cashier.
lij Private Leaned Wire.
Chicago, August 7.—The Milwaukee
Avenue State Rank was placed In the
hands of John F. Fetrher as receiver
today by .Judjo Brentano, at the seme
time warrants for the arrest of the
president end founder, Paul O. Htens-
fand, were issued at the order of the
state bank Inspector, C. C. Jones.
EX-GOY
RECOVERS SIGHT!
TALKSOFPOLITICS
Says He Can Now See Well.
“Russell Will Be
Elected.”
•'x-Governor Allen D. Candler, who
s in the city Tuesday morning, has
recovered the sight of his eve and now
believes he will escape the total blind
ness whbh recently threatened him.
He says Ills sight Is now Just as good
as It was one year ago.
When asked his views on tin- politi
cal situation, he said:
"I Intend to vote for Plain Dick*
Russell because he Is advocating pure
principles and Is essentially o man of
the people. Resides, as Judge ,.f tha
western circuit, which 1> the largest
